Word: wage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Index (1947-49 = 100) jumped sharply (.4%) between April and May to match the alltime high of 115.4 set in October 1953. Main reason: a substantial increase in the cost of food, largely because of the upswing in beef, pork and potato prices. Main result: a 1?-an-hour wage increase for more than 100,000 workers whose pay is geared to the index. Government forecasters, with an eye toward possible wage and price increases in the steel industry (see below), expect the index to go on rising even higher in the months ahead...
...Roosevelt. But gentlemanly tones or no, it became apparent last week that neither companies nor union were going to yield in time to stop a walkout. Six hours before the Saturday night deadline, a last, halfhearted session showed the negotiators as far apart as ever on the key issues: wage increases and length of contract...
Hopes for Coal. Dave McDonald's proudest achievement since becoming president is knocking the wage differential from the contracts of southern Steelworkers, who since 1953 have been getting the same pay as northern workers. Another sizable achievement is that, behind the scenes, he had much to do with arranging the tricky merger of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last year. Ahead he has two strong ambitions, 1) to be invited to address the United Mine Workers, and 2) to bring John L. Lewis back to the newly united house of labor...
...West German Plant Conservation Service at Kiel and the Soviet zone's Central Biological Office together maintain irrigation works that straddle the border, wage joint war against animal epidemics and that old enemy of German agriculture, the potato...
REPUBLIC STRIKE, one of bitterest in recent aviation history, is ending after 15 weeks. Jet-plane maker and 12,000 Machinists' union workers have agreed on 17½? hourly package wage increase, less than half what union originally demanded, three times what company first offered...